Niklas Savander, Nokia's EVP of Markets has slammed rival smartphone companies including Apple and Google during a Nokia World 2010 keynote speech.

Appearing at Nokia World 2010, Savander said he wasn't going to apologise for not being Apple, Google or Samsung, describing Nokia as unique.

Savander claimed that in the last quarter, customers had bought far more Nokia smartphones than those from Apple or Google Android based combined.

"On average, people buy 260,000 Nokia smartphones every day," Savander insisted. "That's 260,000 new smartphones - we didn't add software updates, or sales of music players and computers to that number."

Savander added having one flagship model of phone, such as Apple's iPhone 4, would likely end in tears. "Even at the high-end, offering people just one model will lead to compromises, whether it's compromises with the camera, the browser, the keyboard, or the phone itself".

Savander also played a brief clip of Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iOS Software at Apple, talking about how the iPhone 4 was "all about connecting people," a tagline famously used by Nokia.

"That still makes me chuckle. For Nokia, it’s more than just a feel-good tagline. It’s a passion. The world includes 1.3 billion 'Nokia people'. Our vision of connecting people becomes more relevant every day," Savander added.

Comments

qjames - 23:54 16-09-2010

Having jumped from a Nokia 5800 to an iPhone 4, I can only report positive things. Antenna issue has been much more of an issue for the 5800 than iP4. Symbian is a quagmire and a disgrace -more like a group of teenagers in bedrooms attempt at an OS.If concentrating on one product produces such a sweet experience as the iphone I can live with "missing" functions, specs... Nokia is trying to sell to everyone and probably missing the point in some market segments, hence iPhone's success.More telling, if Nokia is and has been so good and is better than the competition, why is the boss having to claim "we're back"? In fact why do they repeat that every 3 months. You can tell when things are going wrong when they start attacking the competitors.

frere - 15:24 15-09-2010

Oh, how are the mighty fallen! And for a company that sells ONE phone, Apple is kicking Nokia [email protected] Priceless!

BenAtRKUK - 03:39 15-09-2010

NOKIA phones have gone down the drain lets face it, and Symbian is a fail of an OS, nothing impresses me at all in the new Symbian OS, Androids not particularly brilliant but kicks the you know what out of new NOKIAs now, I wouldn't trade 1Million NOKIAs for my iPhone 4. Apple are still winning this round NOKIA.

Mark45 - 19:59 14-09-2010

My daughter was just given a Nokia phone by her grandparents and in the instructions it says not to hold it where the antenna is, ha!